Question

"A soccer ball is kicked horizontally off a 22 m high hill and lands a distance of 35 m from the edge of the hill." Which variable is 35 m? *

Answer 1

Answer:Let’s assume that, after the soccer ball is kicked and moves through its trajectory, it first makes contact with level ground a horizontal distance of 35 meters from where it was kicked. Let’s also assume that we can neglect air resistance. The time, t, that the soccer ball is in the air until it first contacts the ground can be found from the equation h = (1/2)gt^2 which can be rewritten as t = sqrt(2h/g) where h is the vertical distance the ball falls which is the height of the hill since the ball was kicked horizontally, and g is the acceleration of gravity which is 9.8 m/s^2. So t = sqrt(2(22)/9.8) = 2.12 seconds. In that time, the ball travelled 35 meters so its horizontal velocity was 35 meters/2.12 seconds = 16.5 meters/second.

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